mm/kmemleak: disable KASAN instrumentation in kmemleak
authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Thu, 7 Mar 2024 19:05:48 +0000 (14:05 -0500)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:56:05 +0000 (20:56 -0700)
commitc8d36bc2df89dbb7f27cc560a0c5252a6dd16c10
tree12e747a23438210a73d178274f2f552452e8a5e5
parentb04da042208dc0de0de084a2a478d38ee0e51cce
mm/kmemleak: disable KASAN instrumentation in kmemleak

Kmemleak ia a memory leak checker.  KASAN is also a memory checker but it
focuses more on finding out-of-bounds and use-after-free bugs.  Since
kmemleak is inherently slow especially on systems with large number of
CPUs, adding KASAN instrumentation will make it slower even more.  As
kmemleak is not for production use, the utility of enabling KASAN there is
questionable.

This patch disables KASAN instrumentation for configurations that enable
both of them to slightly reduce performance overhead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240307190548.963626-3-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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